Hawkeye, Uncas, And Chingachgook

There has been a time at one point in a person’s life where they were given a task they did not want to do. Sometimes it has to be done. The the short story The Rattler, a mane is talking a walk through a desert setting. His walked was suddenly stopped when he saw a dangerous looking snake, at first glance anyway. He was faced with the task of killing the snake. When the task was complete, he was not thrilled. In The Rattler, the author creates the effect of empathy for the man and sympathy for the snake. The techniques used to achieve that are the description of the man, description of the snake, the setting.

The author of “Chickamauga,” Ambrose Bierce, created this short story as a naturalist visualization of the devastating effects that wars and battles had on the soldiers which fought in them. The short story “Chickamauga” is defined as naturalist literature because of the author’s employment of specific literary techniques which define naturalism, such as the way the author gradually darkens the mood of the storyline as it progresses, the amount of description and attention paid to grisly and macabre details that shed wars in a whole new light, as well as the unfolding nature of the main character as the story

In the morosely reluctant passage, “The Rattler,” the author depicts a conflict between a man’s consciousness and his duty to kill the snake. With the detailed images of the scene, the reader comes to understand the man’s internal conflict. He must decide whether or not it is necessary to kill an innocent rattlesnake; however, when the obligation to protect others is greater than the life of the snake, the man has no other choice but to kill the snake. Throughout the passage, “The Rattler” brilliantly utilizes diction, detail, syntax and overall organization to convey his message.

When in times of danger, people must often take the actions they see best fit. In "The Rattler," the author depicts a vivid story of a man who has to make a difficult choice while facing a rattlesnake in the desert. Despite the man seeing a threat in the snake, it is him that becomes a threat to the other. By using the descriptions of the man, the snake and the specific setting, the author affects the reader by creating a sense of empathy for the narrator and sympathy for the snake. With such a connection, it adds a greater depth to the story for the reader to analyze.

Without realizing it initially, each Wes Moore has been greatly affected by the life events occurring as they grew up because as they matured physically, they also matured mentally by gaining self-knowledge; the same way a hero does throughout a heroic journey. However, while both have gone through the heroic journey, their fate was not identical because of poor choices and irreversible mistakes. Wes Moore, the successful author of his book, has specifically divided his book into 8 chapters, where each shows a year that had a decisive impact for him and Wes. Similar to his book, the hero’s journey also consists of 8 parts where the hero goes through the most important stages of the journey. The correlation between the life events and the patterns of a heroic journey intertwined because both only point out the most crucial parts and have the same end results, leaving the characters to go through each event or stage only as they mature.

Sam and me fought the bear off with a water pistol. We were given free rein to boldly go through the woods.

Adversities are hard to avoid in one’s life; everyone has to face them at one point in their life. The effect it has on a person’s life can change their perspective towards the world. When problems arise individuals traditionally become stunned to such difficult situations that they face. The adversity becomes a brick wall that is challenging to break down. An individual's true character in addition to their nature is revealed when they face a conflict in their life or a challenge. The people who conquer the challenges that life throws at them, they are the only one’s worthy enough of being called a warrior. In the novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham has his protagonist David go through some conflicts which he overcomes throughout the story.

An example of this is is seen in Paul describing what happens when he and his comrades go out into battle, saying that “we turn into animals when we go up to the line, because that is the only thing which rings us through safely” (139). Paul defines soldiers on the line as animals, as they must become animals to not lose their lives. Animals are established in this case as unnatural, mindless, killing machines, that the men have become from battle. Another example of the characters becoming new people through war is seen when the squad is guarding a village and cooking food when an air strike begins. The men are almost done with their meal except for some pancakes that Paul are frying, which “is getting difficult… Whenever I hear a shell coming I drop down on one knee with the pan and the pancakes, and duck behind the wall of the window. Immediately afterwards I am up again and going on with the frying” (235). Paul admits that he showed little attention to the obvious danger that arose with the firing of shells upon them by continuing to fry the pancakes. This lack of natural care to his safety shows how war makes people numb to many present dangers. The way the soldiers become mindless animals oblivious to danger shows how war dehumanizes those in

The concept of the Quest can be easily applied to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.

The chapter, “How to Tell a True War Story,” shows how war can corrupt one’s innocent and moral mindset. One example is how Rat Kiley responds to Curt

The Indians held out for two hours, but when they ran out of ammunition, the soldiers surrounded them and the battle became a massacre. “Approximately 250 Shoshoni were slain, including 90 women and children” (Madsen). Connor’s men ended the misery of the wounded by bashing their heads in with an axe. After the slaughter, the soldiers pillaged the village, taking 1,000 bushels of wheat and flour along with 175 Shoshoni horses (Madsen). When the murderers finished collecting the spoils, they burned down 75 lodges. After their gruesome acts, Colonel Connor and his troops walked away celebrating their victory while the bodies of the massacred Indians were left to the wolves and

The innocence of a human drastically transforms when they are placed in a war. Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road shows the changing innocence of a man in war through the motif of consumption in the novel. This motif is seen consistently in the form of words such as eating and feeding. There are two clear perspectives shown from this, one that takes away innocence and one that gives or repairs innocence. Boyden uses the motif of consumption to display how the innocence of a person can be changed through war and the role culture plays on one’s innocence.

3. Refusal to Call – The hero realizes the difficulty of the quest and begins

While she is scavenging for food with her cubs on the railway she sees the train, using her instincts she “roared” and “charged” at the train (Bear 71,3). Adding her to the statistic, “since 2000... 17 grizzly bears have been killed in the Bow Valley due to railway failure” (Bear 71, 3).  Ultimately knowing the outcome prior due to the statistics, the conductor should have stopped the train when he saw the bear with her cubs. Understanding that bears will protect their cubs.

This "inimical" environment forces the characters to endure and survive (71). The heroes attain their status by using their knowledge of the land to survive the trials it presents. Secondly, horses are expected in Westerns; they are the props. Horses stand at hitching posts, carry the hero over the frontier’s rough terrain, allow the fleeing villain to outrun the pursuing posse, and represent "the heart and soul of a Western" (89-90). But, the essential component of the Western is the hero, the character. Without question, the hero must exude a certain spirit hinting at his physical capabilities, his fearlessness, and his ability to accomplish even the impossible. The Western values his actions over his words (50) and idealizes his physical strength (11). Interestingly, the West requires these heroes to have strength and to act assertively, but their ability to endure the West’s challenges actually molds them into heroes. The rough wilderness, the hero, whose presence dwarfs the robbers and townspeople alike, and the trademark horses that keep the hero in action, carrying him across the unfriendly terrain, provide a working basis on which to compare texts and the roles of the characters. Although Tompkins discusses these elements in the context of the modern Western, they also apply to the earlier texts and are the elements that survived